Joseph Brodsky Quotes

My pop did a little time.

I mean I've never been thrown in jail in New York or Los Angeles.

I should still be in jail.

I had never believed that I would go to jail.

Deinstitutionalization has succeeded in decreasing the overall number of hospital beds, but an unforeseen consequence has been the proportional increase in the number of people with mental illnesses housed in the criminal justice system. Worse, once imprisoned, people with mental illness are shown to have much longer incarcerations than other inmates, primarily because a prison environment and lack of treatment aggravate the very illness that has led to their objectionable or antisocial behavior.

My men were caught by the police tonight. I will probably be going to jail.

The majority of the people in jail are suffering from mental illness.

I don't even talk about being locked up in any of my songs.

I really don't like being in jail.

I've ended up in prison a number of times, once in Cambodia, once in Cuba - for hours rather than days.

I really was in jail with Robert Downey Jr.

Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled.

Psycho 11 and III say, in effect, there's no way to survive with a psychological problem. If you've got it, the law can keep you locked up because there's no chance for cure.

In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.

A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.

People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. Most are people whose only real crime is they got sick.

I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.

I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up.

When Paul was arrested in Japan for having hash in his luggage, I thought he'd be out that night. But it became really serious stuff when he was kept in a cell. I became more fearful as the days went by.

When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.

On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings.

And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as anything else might be - no, it's there every day of my life.